Drwatson has been stopped - thanks!

Sorry for the delay, the computer yesterday (Tues 31st) behaved impeccably
until on Shutdown, it rebooted instead of shutting down, twice, but then a
normal shutdown.
It's still working pretty well today, but after initial start and feeling
that something was not quite right, checked and 'CCAPP' (Symantec, and needed
for virus protection) shown as 'not responding'. Did a restart, which hung
just before Win Shut Dn page, and on initiating manual reboot with a Scandisc
check, started with no problems and worked well for 20 minutes. Then,
with one page in IE open and in pressing 'delete' button to remove part of an
address in 'bar', up came 'Programme has performed an Illegal Operation and
will be Shut Down. Details: showed 'IExplore caused an Invalid Page Fault
in Module User.Exe @ 001e:0000166c'.
Explorer closed and the rest remained normal, and, on reopening Explorer it
has continued as if nothing had happened.

I said rest remained normal, as sometimes something is removed from
'desktop' and often slow or a freeze takes place.

In the last couple of weeks, I haven't recorded the same fault and they
range from MSGSRV32 caused a segment not present fault in Module KRNL386.exe
@ 001:00001c33, to 'blue screens' and an OE fault, thro' SCANDSKW caused an
Invalid Page Fault in Module Kernel32.dll@015f:bff9dba after I ran a
'thorough' SCAN in 'Safe Mode' to see if anything was reported.
The report was that the disc was working perfectly and no problems.

I suspect, now that the 'Doctor has been relieved of his job, it might be
better just to keep recording each 'blip' and see if a common 'theme' shows
up, especially as it's not throwing fault messages out every few minutes, as
it did for a while.

Thanks again for excellent support!
--
Dougair


"Jeff Richards" wrote:

Even though there might be a common cause, you can only track it down using
a specific error, and for that you need the message without the Dr Watson
embellishments.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Dougair" wrote in message
...
Jeff,

The reason I used the data from Drwatson, was because Microsoft stated in
the early days that the lengthy 'data' that is recorded - and there's much
more than the brief summary I put, PLUS, the fact that I got, and get,
along
with the DrW report, a 'Fatal Exception' (or other) message; these tend to
differ and depend on program I'm working with at the time - that the
'snapshop' would show up the problem!?!

Although I do get problems sometimes right after rebooting, usually,
Windows
works well for up to 2 hours and then suddenly slows and shows reluctance
to
act on a 'click', when I know that it's just about to freeze. Sometimes
I
can save it doing so by Ctrl-Alt-Dlt and removing the working program (or
'not responding') - other times not!

It's not a heat problem, the fans are working AND after a 'reboot' the
system will work again for up to 2 hours.
It has been exacerbated by putting in Norton 2005, because I suspect, the
greedy RAM taker, and I believe IE and Norton do clash, but is not the
primary reason as it was suddenly rebooting before Norton.

It is possible that the sudden reboot is causing damage and loss to files,
but when all systems are working, it goes on for some time working well,
which, if there was damaged or missing NECCESSARY files, would be
unlikely.

I am no expert, but am having to learn fast, and I DO use the Knowledge
Base, which is excellent, and the Internet to find out what ALL the
messages
mean. There however must be a common cause at the centre of most of
the
spread of 'problem messages'. We'll get there, and thanks for your
help,
but apart from reinstalling Windows - which until I can save much info. I
have no intention of doing, any thoughts are appreciated.
I have a lot of time for Microsoft design - and the ability of the system
to
overcome!